HeatFanLifer wrote:oreon wrote:HeatFanLifer wrote:NBA should do a world cup style of bracketing to finish the season. 6 groups of 5 teams. Two teams advance from each group. Group placement is based on regular season record. 1 game against each team in group.
Group A:
Milwaukee, Philly, Dallas, Chicago, New York
Group B:
Lakers, indy, Memphis, Charlotte, Detroit
Group C:
Toronto, Houston, Brooklyn, Washington, Atl
Group D:
Clippers, OKC, Orlando, Phoenix, Minny
Group E:
Celtics, Heat, Portland, San Antonio, Cleveland
Group F:
Nuggets, Jazz, New Orleans, Sacramento, Warriors
12 teams advance. Teams with top 4 regular season records get a bye. 3 game playoff for 8 remaining teams in first round. Brackets are re-seeded each round depending on record.
That is way too complicated. There are talks about doing 1 - 16 regardless of conference. The top 13 are pretty much set. You could have a play in tournament for 8 teams for the last 3 spots. Then the rest is the same, 7 game playoffs with reseeding each round. The matchups would be fun.The NBA is considering a group stage with the resumption of the season....
The 20 teams would be allocated into five tiers in descending order by record.
Tier 1: Bucks, Lakers, Raptors, Clippers
Tier 2: Celtics, Nuggets, Jazz, Heat
Tier 3: Thunder, Rockets, Pacers, Sixers
Tier 4: Mavericks, Grizzlies, Nets, Magic
Tier 5: Blazers, Pelicans, Kings, Spurs
Groups would then be randomly drawn with one team from each tier.
Ok. I read it and I don't like it. Just go with top 16 and start playoffs. Or go with the top 8 in each conference based on 63 games (minimum amt of games played by a team). Portland is 4 games away from 8th and Wizards 5 away. Tough luck for these teams but it wouldn't be a travesty if they missed out. We shouldn't dramatically alter the post season when there's no need to.
I am ok with a play in tournament to get the last 2 spots for the playoffs but not changing the playoff format from a best of 7 each round. It won't be the same competition